Galvan or Galivan?

Mark R. Jones

Did Imagine actually spell the title to Galvan/Galivan wrong on the spine of the game?
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/g/Galivan-CosmoPolice.jpg

Mark R. Jones

After my recent inlay uploads I can't see the back page of the Green Beret instructions. Have they been missed? I sent another scan of another page of instructions after the ones seen here on the inlay:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/g/GreenBeret.jpg

ghbearman

Mark R Jones wrote: »

Did Imagine actually spell the title to Galvan/Galivan wrong on the spine of the game?
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/g/Galivan-CosmoPolice.jpg

Yes, lol. The arcade game is called Galivan.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7896

Mark R. Jones

What dimbos!

mheide

Mark R Jones wrote: »

After my recent inlay uploads I can't see the back page of the Green Beret instructions. Have they been missed? I sent another scan of another page of instructions after the ones seen here on the inlay:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/g/GreenBeret.jpg

They all arrived in good nick.
What we did is to only add instructions scans for the titles we didn't have instructions for yet, or where the existing ones are incomplete or made up.

The instructions for Green Beret were available already.

fog

all the music on the c64 one is VERY memorable for all the wrong reasons, and pretty much a brain worm.. what did you lot mention that game for !!! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB0CvjgL3A8

as seen on that title screen the correct spelling

joefish

Isn't it all a bit ambiguous? If you only have that title screen logo to go on, it could go either way. Is there anywhere where it's actually written officially one way or the other?

Hairy

Mark R Jones wrote: »

What dimbos!

Indeed.

From the arcade game:

joefish wrote: »

..... Is there anywhere where it's actually written officially one way or the other?

It's Galivan to everyone except Imagine. Everywhere I've looked anyway.

Mark R. Jones

Ahh there's the proof! :)

ghbearman

joefish wrote: »

Isn't it all a bit ambiguous? If you only have that title screen logo to go on, it could go either way. Is there anywhere where it's actually written officially one way or the other?

Plus, in Japanese, you'd have to say Ga-ri-ban, due to how each consonant is defined with a vowel, except for n.

merman

I'm guessing the sword splitting the middle of the logo is meant to represent the "I".

I always just called it "that rubbish conversion with the cool Bob Wakelin artwork". It's a lot like Quartet, the advert promising a lot more than the 8-bit graphics can portray...

Mark R. Jones

Yeah it was from that dodgy Ocean period from 1986 to beginning of 1987!

Arjun

merman wrote: »

I'm guessing the sword splitting the middle of the logo is meant to represent the "I".

That's how I interpret it too.

Ralf

If I remember WOS rules say that the name of a game is what is written on cassette spine.

Martijn, both inlays, English and Spanish say Galvan on the spines. Shouldn't the game name be changed and Galivan made an alias? Or do we do some exception here?

redballoon

When I first got a copy on cassette way back then, the person the copied for me had wrote "Gavin" on it. And that is why I've called this game "Gavin" since then. :smile:

Alessandro Grussu

I don't think it's rubbish - in fact I played it a lot back then.

Once you got used to the odd proportions of the playing area it was pretty good fun. At least for me!

As the aforementioned Quartet, not the best coin-op conversion for the Spectrum, but far from the worst (Pit Fighter, Soldier Of Light or Track And Field, anyone?).

ZnorXman

Seems like this was discussed before.
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Alessandro Grussu

ZnorXman wrote: »

Seems like this was discussed before.
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I can just be glad of the fact that I have my very own followers here! :D

Morkin

redballoon wrote: »

When I first got a copy on cassette way back then, the person the copied for me had wrote "Gavin" on it. And that is why I've called this game "Gavin" since then. :smile:

:lol:

Can we have a vote to call it 'Gavin' in the archive?

Alessandro Grussu

Gavin (or, to be precise, its Italian form Gavino) is actually a quite common name. In Sardinia, that is :)

mheide

Ralf wrote: »

If I remember WOS rules say that the name of a game is what is written on cassette spine.

Martijn, both inlays, English and Spanish say Galvan on the spines. Shouldn't the game name be changed and Galivan made an alias? Or do we do some exception here?

While this is absolutely correct, I want to make an exception to the rule in this case.
The incorrect spelling is also maintained, as an alias, and the situation is described in a remark.

(There are other exceptions such as most Zenobi games, which have just 3 or 4 letters on the spine).